Sentences with phrase «temporal realm»

It must further be stipulated that there are moral people — at least in terms of the virtues appropriate to the temporal realm — who do not draw their morality from sources ostensibly religious in nature.

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

And while it is true that his philosophy of nature does much to recognize the value of nature as a temporal realm of contingent particularity, it fails to acknowledge the evolution of mind from nature, and so fails to properly incorporate the characteristics of nature in a general metaphysic.

It took revenge upon itself and the temporal realm of becoming in the only way it could — through world creation and world valuation.

From Plato, who defined time as a moving (i.e., imperfect) image of eternity, down to St. Thomas, who stressed the perfect immutability of his Supreme Being in terms indistinguishable from the language of the Eleatic school, we can trace the same persistent theme — a metaphysical dichotomy of Being and Becoming, of perfection and imperfection, of the timeless and the temporal realms.

To this dichotomy corresponds the epistemological dichotomy of two kinds of knowledge — the true knowledge of the all - embracing timeless truth which only God possesses and man's imperfect knowledge confined to the temporal realm.

In his last chapter, Mahoney argues that Solzhenitsyn's political moderation is rooted in the Christian belief that the highest goods (salvation, love, beauty) transcend the temporal realm of politics.

If this person does show up, you will probably only see, like, his lower leg and part of his knee, because most of him is stuck in another temporal realm.

There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons.

In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials.

In both spheres — the collection of objects and her insistence on reticular structures and grids — Darboven seems determined to hold back time and reconstruct it using meta - architectures in which the temporal realm unfolds into space.